A Joe in the Bush Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 (edited) Everyone always does eventually. Edited July 19, 2015 by The Only Joe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 Aw, heck. I guess I should officially join, then? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverblade5 Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 Aw, heck. I guess I should officially join, then? Yes, you definitely should. The chronicles will show you why. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted July 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 (edited) The temptation to become a Brony and start watching is strong in this one Aw, heck. I guess I should officially join, then? ...Seriously, brony music is awesome. Edited July 20, 2015 by Quiver 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 (edited) [media*]https://www.you*tube.com/watch?v=MjfCH89sBzs[/media*] ...Seriously, brony music is awesome. Why does my notifications say you quoted me in this post? Edited July 22, 2015 by The Only Joe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted July 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Why does my notifications say you quoted me in this post? Oh. Uh... I quoted you by accident, then edited your part out. Sorry! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgedancer Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Okay, I just had a very random thought that is definetly not what was intended but given the world of MLP also has other inteligent species like Griffins and Zebras isn't the term everypony kind of racist? And given how Ponyville dealed with Zecora this isn't even the first instance of racism in the pony society. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) Okay, I just had a very random thought that is definetly not what was intended but given the world of MLP also has other inteligent species like Griffins and Zebras isn't the term everypony kind of racist? And given how Ponyville dealed with Zecora this isn't even the first instance of racism in the pony society. Added fridge horror? Mules exist in the world of Equestria. Rarity and Twilight Sparkle -frakin' Twilight "Princess of Friendship" Sparkle!- both sue mule's as derogatory example's of things ("Mules are ugly"/"that pony is as stubborn as a mule"). And mules are so used to this, that they don't even blink and just tell everyone they didn't take any offence to it. Heck, if you want to go really creepy with it... Cows talk; there's an early episode where Sheep talk too. So why does AJ have a farm with them? Why are sheep "rounded up~" by dogs, when you can just ask them to move? (My explanation is early-installment weirdness, since we haven't seen Mooriella or talking sheep for a few seasons now, and even the mule joke got phased out... but still. Equestria, man.) Edited July 27, 2015 by Quiver 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgedancer Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Added fridge horror? Mules exist in the world of Equestria. Rarity and Twilight Sparkle -frakin' Twilight "Princess of Friendship" Sparkle!- both sue mule's as derogatory example's of things ("Mules are ugly"/"that pony is as stubborn as a mule"). And mules are so used to this, that they don't even blink and just tell everyone they didn't take any offence to it. Heck, if you want to go really creepy with it... Cows talk; there's an early episode where Sheep talk too. So why does AJ have a farm with them? Why are sheep "rounded up~" by dogs, when you can just ask them to move? (My explanation is early-installment weirdness, since we haven't seen Mooriella or talking sheep for a few seasons now, and even the mule joke got phased out... but still. Equestria, man.) If one really wants to dig there's more. Like the lost treasure of Griffinstone, the ponies get town and what do they do immediately? Judge their livestyle as wrong and force their own virtues on them. How do they deal with the Yak embassadors? Try to placate them with a mockery of their culture, that shows that the ponies didn't put any actuall effort into actually understanding them (with Pinky Pie being the exception). How do they solve the problem? Parade their superior pony culture. And even the name Equestria shows that ponies clearly view themselves as the master race. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 If one really wants to dig there's more. Like the lost treasure of Griffinstone, the ponies get town and what do they do immediately? Judge their livestyle as wrong and force their own virtues on them. How do they deal with the Yak embassadors? Try to placate them with a mockery of their culture, that shows that the ponies didn't put any actuall effort into actually understanding them (with Pinky Pie being the exception). How do they solve the problem? Parade their superior pony culture. And even the name Equestria shows that ponies clearly view themselves as the master race. There are a lot of problems with Equestrian society, but none of those really qualify. The ponies don't force their virtues on the griffons. The griffons are wallowing in a level of greed that's extremely harmful to themselves and everyone around them--one griffon even abandons Rainbow to die because she's out of money! At the end all they do is convince one griffon that there are kinder, less self-centered ways of thinking. They pretty much just introduced basic morality to the place. As for the yaks, nowhere is it indicated that the ponies consider themselves superior to them, nor do they make a mockery of anyone. In fact Twilight puts considerable effort into giving then authentic luxuries to remind them of their homeland, but since the yaks sealed off their borders for however-many years, she was forced to work with hopelessly out-of-date info. The final party wasn't meant to prove Equestrian society was superior. It was merely there to prove to the yaks that pony culture was equally unique and beautiful in its own way. And finally, the convention if naming a country after its inhabitants is hardly indicative of racism. Griffonstone seems to indicate that it's not an uncommon convention on their world, and England was named for similar reasons. ("Angle Land.") 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgedancer Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Maybe I should have been a bit thicker with the sarcasm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParadoxicalZen Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 And finally, the convention if naming a country after its inhabitants is hardly indicative of racism. Griffonstone seems to indicate that it's not an uncommon convention on their world, and England was named for similar reasons. ("Angle Land.") Did my ancestral kinsmen think of themselves as inhabitants of higher dimensions o.O xD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Maybe I should have been a bit thicker with the sarcasm. Celestia darn it. I did it again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgedancer Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) Celestia darn it. I did it again. Eh, no harm done. I shouldn't have left the smiley or sarcasm indicator out of the internet. Edited July 27, 2015 by Edgedancer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 And finally, the convention if naming a country after its inhabitants is hardly indicative of racism. Griffonstone seems to indicate that it's not an uncommon convention on their world, and England was named for similar reasons. ("Angle Land.") Did my ancestral kinsmen think of themselves as inhabitants of higher dimensions o.O xD 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParadoxicalZen Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 Egad, that sounds like that one time i remember with the Phantom Tollbooth! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 Egad, that sounds like that one time i remember with the Phantom Tollbooth! Puns are very underrated teaching tools. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 Did my ancestral kinsmen think of themselves as inhabitants of higher dimensions o.O xD ...Though seriously, I'm considering doing an MLP/Gravity Fall's crossover story, someone stop me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParadoxicalZen Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) Puns are very underrated teaching tools. Sir Pent was one of the cheesiest i've seen, yet still one of the best ...Though seriously, I'm considering doing an MLP/Gravity Fall's crossover story, someone stop me. Do it...you know it is what the universe requires Edited July 28, 2015 by ParadoxSpren 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 ...Though seriously, I'm considering doing an MLP/Gravity Fall's crossover story, someone stop me. There's precedent for it in the fandom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted July 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 There's precedent for it in the fandom. ... "To celebrate their first Summer together as friends, the girls of Canterlot High go on a vacation to the sleepy little town of Gravity Fall's, Oregon. But, despite her friend's insistence that she relax, there is somethign about this place that puts Sunset Shimmer on edge, something that feel's not uncommonly like the magic she used to feel back in Equestria... and the strange, triangle shaped drawing's that no one but her seem's to notice convince her that this is no ordinary town. And then she finds a Journal..." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 My dad is installing a program on all our computers that will give him a list of every site anyone in the house visits. So I get to either tell him about the brony fandom, something he has expressed distaste in, or stop going to any MLP site at home. So any last minute advice on leaving the brony closet would be very appreciated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 My dad is installing a program on all our computers that will give him a list of every site anyone in the house visits. So I get to either tell him about the brony fandom, something he has expressed distaste in, or stop going to any MLP site at home. So any last minute advice on leaving the brony closet would be very appreciated. It's time. Time to print out and wallpaper the house in My Little Pony screenshots. PONYBOMB THEM ALL! Muahahahaha! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Huh. Guess I worked myself up over nothing. I talkedoto my dad, and he didn't know what a brony was, so I explained it was a fan of Mlp. He didn't know what Mlp was, so I had to explain that as well. Then he was just confused why I was telling him. So I explained I assumed he would find out and be disgusted, to which he replied with, "well that explains all the pony pictures you have on your computer. I wondered about those." Then he asked me which episode's he should watch first. I think I'll show him The return of Harmony tomorrow. If I had known this is how my father would.react, I would have told him a long time ago. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParadoxicalZen Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Then he asked me which episode's he should watch first. I think I'll show him The return of Harmony tomorrow. If I had known this is how my father would.react, I would have told him a long time ago. O.o if that had happened to me, my jaw would have dropped faster than Minor Mistborn/SA spoilers A full grown Koloss windrunner in Shardplate who had lashed himself upwards and ran out of stormlight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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